[GLLUG] Firewall / Network Appliance Antivirus

[Melson, Paul]

Sorry this response is so far behind the thread, but I haven't read
'recreational(?)' email in almost a month.

Check out http://www.openantivirus.org/.  Squid-vscan works very well,
and will scan anything you can proxy through Squid, including HTTP and
FTP. (And, in so doing, can claim that it is the only in-line anti-virus
for Gopher!)  HTTPS/SSL won't work, of course, because Squid just uses
'CONNECT' streaming to proxy encrypted traffic.

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lawton [mailto:jeff at idealso.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:31 PM
To: Ex Fed
Cc: GLLUG
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Firewall / Network Appliance Antivirus


Over a gigabit. This will be more dependent on the pci bus than the
processor.

Filtering viruses is usually done at the server. There are several open
source solution for scanning/filtering mail
http://clamav.sourceforge.net/ or http://mailtools.anomy.net/

For web filtering you could add dansguardian and squid to ipcop and do
some filtering.

FTP; you could use a web based upload/filemanager app and modify it to
scan everything as its uploaded before its saved to disc.

I hope this helps.